Tom never catches Jerry. Despite clever attempts, Wile E. Coyote can't nab the Road Runner. And the rest of the PGA Tour can't run down Tiger Woods. No matter what his colleagues do swing alterations, increased visits to the gym, requests for divine intervention Woods remains a distant target, a Holy Grail glistening on emerald fairways.

A struggling Indian tribe is hoping to change its fortunes by luring tourists out over the edge of the Grand Canyon on a glass-bottom observation deck 4,000 feet above the Colorado River. The horseshoe-shaped walkway will jut from the canyon's lip and offer the kind of straight-down, vertigo-inducing views that had previously been available only to the likes of Wile E. Coyote.

Alex Rodriguez has been pancaked, Wile E. Coyote style, by more sacks of money than could ever come crashing out of the back of an armored truck. The $252 million man has been victimized by his own fame and fortune, buried by what Reggie Jackson used to call "the magnitude of me."

Fans of The Incredibles looking for another fix from director Brad Bird can look no further than The Iron Giant, out on DVD Tuesday. The little-seen 1999 animated adventure shows off the early talent of the director, who is the force behind this holiday season's animated superhero smash.